What Was The Point Of Removing The Search From Gfy?
 

Now, there will be tons of people asking the same questions over and over. Gfy was a knowledge base when you could search it. The only thing positive is people not bumping old threads but how big of a problem was that?

This thread has already been posted... do a search.

What's funny is that a couple years back the search was removed for about 3 months and NOBODY complained.

Knocked half the functionality of the site off....

On the upside, page views for listings will probably go up as people try to search manually.

that makes sense but i hope it comes back:2 cents:

I had it surgically grafted onto my penis.

the search feature needs to seriously be brought back, there's no point in using GFY now

GFY should really hire a real sysadmin if they can't figure out how to make vbulletin run quickly on this amount of users.

fuzebox - theyve needed to do that for years - someone that knows vbulletin and server admin would be a huge boost to this board - but seems like it always falls on deaf ears

Actually there are some useful threads around here.
FREE THE SEARCH!

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the point was to see how many idiots would make threads saying why is search disabled

Its only disabled for people in Ca... :pimp

Fuck if forums like somethingawful can have thousands of users on at a time without a problem I'm sure GFY can be fixed.

insert intelligent response

google will search GFY: does that qualify?

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Sorry man, you're wrong. People did complain...LOUDLY in fact. It just wasn't fashionable to have your own thread about it, and there were a LOT less useless posters.

When the search is back up I'll prove it if you need me too. I suspect it'll be up shortly after this skin is down.

idk.........

and whO caRes...
wht dOes it matter????

what was the URL of that programmer who spidered GFY and allowed you to search it from his website? i forget... is that still alive?

What he said, quoted in non-color non-bold for your non-annoying viewing... because what he said is correct.

Also correct. People did complain back then as well.


Personally I don't mind putting up with the inconvenience for a while, as long as it eventually means the board improves. I'm all for improving things, always.

You know, that may not be a bad idea actually. Is it possible for Lens to farm out the search function? That way the load from searches falls on other servers, Lens pays for the bandwidth, we now have search AND a speedy board.

Doable?

I don't see why not, everything is doable. :D

Your memory is failing you. :2 cents:

ummmmmmm... Lens could do the same damn thing...

Just wait a few more years. It'll get fixed, that's a promise.

That was kind of my hunch too... :helpme

I'm cynical to a fault, but I despise self-serving corporate butt-maggots!

ADG

got any tips?

YEAH, dont quit your day job:winkwink:

Tons, I still admin a board with 50k+ members, 500k+ threads, tons of daily whore threads and searches being ran around the clock, and the board runs snappy on a pair of low end servers from theplanet.com which I log into every 3 months or so.

I don't get how with 6 figures monthly revenue, and their own hosting company, why GFY can't manage to do the same...

actually they sold Jupiter Hosting

not that it matters in any way

really ? i must search for that

what do the mods say about the search issue?

Good luck

Good to see that someone is paying attention

yea but are you coming up with a better search function??

you could mirror the search data over to another server, and do searches via another domain

Figure the scale of GFY. There are plenty of companies out there running bots 24 hours a day, probably every few minutes, looking for threads with things like "I need a host" or "spam me with feeds" so they can jump in an autopost bullshit.

There are also bots out there whacking at the DB looking for new threads so they can post "sig post" and "fifty pissed off webmasters" at the right point to secure sig space.

Then there is apparently a large number of extremely paranoid program owners and invidivuals who feed the need to search for their names 100 times per day to make sure we didn't say they are caners or that their program sucks donkey dicks or that they are legendary liars.

Your site ain't got nothing on what the GFY search is suffering through.

That and sometimes I think this board is run on massively out of date software, operating systems, and servers.